Downloadable Files

The following files are available for download:

Core Distribution

The core distribution consists of the actual Cactus framework for server-side unit tests, as well as documentation, examples and the Cactus Ant tasks.

  • jakarta-cactus-12-<version>.zip

    The main binary distribution of Cactus for J2EE 1.2. Includes the Cactus framework, the complete set of documentation, the Cactus Ant tasks and the examples.

  • jakarta-cactus-13-<version>.zip

    The main binary distribution of Cactus for J2EE 1.3. Includes the Cactus framework, the complete set of documentation, the Cactus Ant tasks and the examples.

  • jakarta-cactus-src-<version>.zip

    The source distribution of Cactus. This corresponds to a clean CVS checkout of the Cactus sources at the time the version was released.

  • jakarta-cactus-ant-*.zip

    A distribution of Ant that has been pre-configured to run Cactus tests. This archive is no longer being made available as of Cactus 1.5. See the documentation about the Ant integration for information on how to setup Ant for use with Cactus.

Eclipse Plugins

Early versions of an Eclipse plugin for Cactus are available from the nightly builds area.

  • jakarta-cactus-integration-eclipse-runner-12-<version>.zip

    The Cactus Runner plugin for J2EE 1.2.

  • jakarta-cactus-integration-eclipse-runner-13-<version>.zip

    The Cactus Runner plugin for J2EE 1.3.

  • jakarta-cactus-integration-eclipse-webapp-<version>.zip

    The Web Application plugin.

<version> represents the version number for releases and the date stamp for nightly builds.

Releases

For older Cactus releases (<= 1.4.1), click here.

Nightly builds

Click here for Cactus nightly builds.

You can also check the Build result page, which contains information on the status of the Cactus nightly builds (yes, they fail from time to time).